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World Philosophy
Day: 17 November

The
World Philosophy Day is observed globally on the third thurshday of November
every year. This year, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) organised the special events. The World Philosophy Day
was introduced in 2002 by UNESCO to encourage the world to share their
philosophical heritage and open their minds to new ideas.

NATIONAL

Sachin Tendulkar's
adopted village in AP is open defecation free

i. Cricket
legend and Rajya Sabha member Sachin Tendulkar has announced that his adopted
village Puttam Rajuvari Kandriga in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh is open
defecation free. He visited the village in Gudur mandal that he had adopted
under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana two years ago. He said, he could remember
the conditions in the village which were appalling two years ago and there has been
great progress.

ii. He
appreciated the support of the officials and implementing agencies. The
cricketer said, India needs Swacch and Swastha Bharat and PR Kandriga will be a
role model for it. Upon adoption, Sachin had contributed almost 3 crore rupees
to PR Kandriga and the district administration mobilized another 3 crores for
taking up various works.

The
project was conceptualised and pursued by former Chief Minister late Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed in the aftermath of devastating floods of 2014 and today after
completion of all formalities the project was formally launched.

Chhattisgarh first
state to pass motion supporting note ban

Chhattisgarh
on Wednesday became the first state to pass a motion supporting the
demonetisation policy introduced by the BJP-led Central government, reports
said. The motion was introduced in the state assembly by Chhattisgarh CM and
BJP leader Raman Singh. He also announced that e-payment devices have been
exempted from Value Added Tax (VAT) to encourage digital transactions.

Govt launches
revamped toll-free helpline no 1947 for
info on Aadhaar

Government
today launched revamped Aadhaar toll-free helpline number - 1947 to help
citizens to get quick access to information about Aadhaar, which will be
available 24x7 throughout the year on Interactive voice response system mode
(IVRS), while Call-Centre agents will be available from 7 am to 11 pm.

Chief
Executive Officer of Unique Identification Authority of India, Dr Ajay Bhushan
Pandey said, the number has been revamped to handle more incoming calls and to
brings Aadhaar closer to everyone. On an average, the helpline number handles
about 1.5 lakh calls per day.

Punjab Assembly
passes resolution on SYL Canal: Sukhbir Singh Badal

Punjab
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has said, the resolutions passed by
the State Assembly on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal has directed the government
and its officials to neither hand over any land to any agency for construction
of the canal nor provide any sort of co-operation.

Addressing
a press conference in Chandigarh after the adjournment of the Assembly, he
said, the direction is mandatory for any future government as well. The other
resolution was for charging fee for water provided to Haryana, Rajasthan and
Delhi from 1966 onward.

Gurugram to host
Great Indian Film and Literature Festival

The
three-day Great Indian Film and Literature Festival will begin at DLF CyberHub,
Gurugram on December 2. The festival will feature panel discussions on several
themes, including filmmaking and advertising, as well as film screenings, book
readings, a music concert and a poetry slam. It will be attended by author
Ruskin Bond and actor Piyush Mishra, among others.

PMAY-G scheme to
construct 1 crore houses in 3 years

A
scheme to construct one crore houses in next three years has been approved by
the government with the objective of 'Housing for All by 2022', Lok Sabha was
informed today. "To pursue the objective, the Union Cabinet approved
re-structuring of the erstwhile rural housing scheme Indira Awaas Yojana into
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin," Rural Development Minister NS Tomar
said.

INTERNATIONAL

Russia withdraws
from International Criminal Court treaty

President
Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order removing Russia’s signature from
the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty on 16th November. Russia in
2000 signed the Rome treaty that established the Hague-based court but never
ratified it.

Withdrawals

The
US initially signed the Rome statute under the Clinton administration but later
withdrew, under the leadership of George W Bush. Sudan and Israel have also
withdrawn their signatures in the past, while other nations - including China
and India - have rejected membership outright.

Earlier
this year, South Africa, Burundi and The Gambia all decided to withdraw
completely. Several other African nations have also expressed doubt over the
court's future, amid allegations that it is too focused on countries within the
continent. In the court's 14-year history it has only brought charges against
Africans.

BANKING NEWS

Axis Bank Cuts
Lending Rate

i. Axis
Bank has cut marginal cost of fund-based lending rate (MCLR) by 0.15-0.20 per
cent effective. "Axis Bank reviews and reduces the MCLR by 15 basis points
(bps) or 0.15 per cent across all tenures up to 1 year and by 20 bps for 2-year
and 3-year tenure," the private sector lender said in a regulatory filing.

For
overnight tenure, the new MCLR will be 8.65 per cent. One-month tenure will
attract a rate of 8.70 per cent while those for three and six months will be
8.90 and 9 per cent, respectively. For one year, the new MCLR will be 9.05 per
cent. The bank will levy an interest rate of 9.10 per cent and 9.15 per cent
for two years and three years, respectively.

ii. New
loans will be priced at the revised rates with effect from November 18, Axis
Bank said. Shares in Axis Bank ended 1.48 per cent lower at Rs. 472.05 apiece
on the BSE, whose benchmark Sensex index finished down 0.02 per cent.

BUSINESS NEWS

Over Rs 3900 crore
collected as Swachh Bharat Cess in last fiscal

Over
Rs 3,900 crore was collected as Swachh Bharat Cess (SBC) in the last financial
year, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. The government had imposed 0.5 per
cent SBC on all taxable services from November 15 last year."The total
amount collected from SBC during fiscal 2015-16 was Rs 3,901.76 crore,"
Minister of State for Urban Development Rao Inderjit Singh said in a written
reply.

AGREEMENTS &MoUs

MPVL supplies
30,000 bottles of indelible ink to RBI

In
Karnataka, the State owned Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (MPVL) started
supplying the Indelible ink to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from today.
Addressing the media persons, MPVL Chairman H A Venkatesh said the first
consignment of 30,000 bottles of Indelible ink of 5 ml each has been dispatched
to the RBI Note Mudra unit in the Mysuru city.

Even
though various banks have already placed orders, as per the direction of the
RBI, the company could not supply directly and it should be routed through RBI
only. He said that uptil now 2,96,500 bottles of 5 ml of orders have been
received by the company. The company has started the production from this
morning following the RBI orders issued yesterday.

Telangana signs MoU
with Microsoft for digital services

Telangana
government on Wednesday signed an MoU with Microsoft Corporation India for
helping the government explore cloud, machine learning and mobile-based
solutions to improve citizen services, education, healthcare and agriculture.
"Telangana government believes that ICT is the key to building not only a
stronger economy but also an efficient and effective governance system,"
officials said.

APPOINTMENTS

Cricket Aus Names
Hohns Interim Chairman

Cricket
Australia appointed former test spinner Trevor Hohns interim chairman of
selectors. Greg Chappell will also join the selection panel on an interim basis
with Mark Waugh & Darren Lehmann. The appointments were made at an
extraordinary meeting of the Cricket Australia board following Marsh’s decision
to stand down. Marsh’s resignation followed Australia’s loss to South Africa.

AWARDS

HDFC Bank's Puri
ranked 36th in Fortune's top bizmen list

i. HDFC
Bank's Aditya Puri has been ranked 36th in the US magazine Fortune's top 50
business persons list for 2016, and is the only Indian among three persons of
Indian origin in the global rankings.

ii. Puri,
who has led the second largest private sector lender since its inception in
1994, has been ranked 36th in the list, which evaluates corporate leaders'
business performance. While Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg leads the list,
Microsoft's chief executive Satya Nadella has been ranked fifth. AO Simith's
Ajita Rajendra is at 34, followed by Mastercard's Ajay Banga at 40.

NASA astronaut set
to become oldest woman in space

NASA
astronaut Peggy Whitson, at an age of 56 years, will become the oldest woman in
space history after she takes off for the International Space Station (ISS) on
Thursday. Notably, Whitson, who holds the record for most time spent in space
by a woman, is also the first woman to become ISS commander. This will be
Whitson's third spaceflight.

SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY

India's Rustom-II
UAV successfully completes maiden test flight

Rustom-II,
India's indigenously developed drone, today successfully completed its
maiden-flight, which enhanced India's development programme for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV). The DRDO successfully carried out the maiden-flight of TAPAS
201 (RUSTOM-II), a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV. It has an
endurance of 24 hours and can conduct surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
The test flight took place from Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, 250
km from Bangalore.

DEFENCE

Women Commando Team
Inducted In CRPF to counter Naxal insurgency

A
team of women commandos has been inducted for the first time in Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) to counter Naxal insurgency in Jharkhand. A Naxal or
Naxalite is a member of any of the Communist guerrilla groups in India, mostly
associated with the Communist or Leftist ideology.

Navy to get 4 P-8I
advanced maritime aircraft from 2020

The
Indian Navy will get four P-8I advanced maritime reconnaissance aircraft with
upgrades starting from 2020, Chief Engineer of the Boeing P-8I programme Mark
Jordan has said. India already has eight of these aircrafts and has been using
its P-8I fleet for missions like spotting passing submarines and ships, and
search missions in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.

Akhilesh
Inaugurates Gomti River Front

Uttar
Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the Rs 1500-crore Gomti riverfront
development project & Gaus Mohammad Stadium in Lucknow. Under this project,
a diaphragm wall has been made on both banks of the Gomti river to channel its
waterflow. The land between the waterway and the embankment has been developed
for public use.The stadium is named after ace lawn tennis player Gaus Mohammad.

BOOKS & AUTHOR

"Post-Truth"
Named Oxford Dictionaries Word of Year Amid 2016 Political Climate

Oxford
Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" to be its international word
of the year citing a 2,000% spike in its usage. The Word of the Year of Oxford
Dictionary is an expression or word that is chosen to reflect the passing year
in language. The adjective is defined as "relating to or denoting
circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public
opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".

Twinkle Khanna
launches her second book 'The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad'

Actor-turned-author
Twinkle Khanna launched her second book titled 'The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad'.
Twinkle's first book was 'Mrs Funnybones: She's Just Like You and a Lot Like
Me', which was published in 2015

SPORTS NEWS

SGFI National
School Football Championship kicks off in Port Blair

The
62nd SGFI National School Football Championship 2016 got underway with a
colourful opening ceremony by the school students at Netaji Stadium, Port Blair
today evening. Altogether 29 teams from the country are participating in this
10 days tournament. In the opening match played today at Netaji Stadium, the
boys of Andaman Nicobar Islands won playing Andhra Pradesh team by 3-0

National C'ship
runs short of medals after record broken

Seventeen-year-old
Tejaswin Shankar, who broke a 12-year-old senior high jump national record last
Thursday, was not given a gold medal as the organisers of the Junior National
Championship ran out of medals. There was a shortage of 29 gold medals, 27
silver medals and as many bronze medals. Shankar had won a silver in his maiden
senior meet in Guwahati.

OBITUARY

'Ramayan' TV show
actor Mukesh Rawal dies at 65

Actor
Mukesh Rawal, who played the role of 'Vibhishan' in Ramanand Sagar's television
series 'Ramayana', passed away at the age of 65 on Wednesday. According to a
relative, he was travelling for a dubbing session for a Gujarati film when he
died in a train accident. His body was reportedly found at a railway track in
Kandivali, Mumbai.

World Bank:
President : Jim Yong Kim
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
World Bank Group:
World Bank Group has five international organizations:
♦ International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
♦ International Development Association (IDA)
♦ International Finance Corporation (IFC)
♦ Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
♦ International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)